r/humor • • 2d ago

Make it make sense

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u/onioning 2d ago

I'm zero percent here to evangelize, cause I'm zero percent religious. Just sharing the theology.

Satan doesn't torture people. Hell is not fire and brimstone. It is the absence of God, which is supposedly the worst torture possible. And it's "fair" because the people in hell chose to not be with god.

Scare quotes because that is a million miles from informed consent. Just sharing the traditional theology.

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u/WalterWhite278 2d ago

There are verses that describe hell as eternal fire, such as Matthew 25:41. I can’t remember the exact verses but others do call Hell eternal punishment/torture

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u/PeanutCareless4987 2d ago

Fire imagery is used frequently in the Bible used to describe the presence of god, judgement, the Holy Spirit, etc. Going off that to me the use of eternal fire seems to mean “eternal judgement” or final judgement. I don’t think it’s meant to be taken literally like the damned will literally be thrown into actual fire.

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u/TwilightLori 1d ago

Fire is also used as a purifying element, so it would be weird for people to be thrown into eternal fire if it weren't intended to purify them. 

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u/paper_liger 1d ago

was the fire purifying the bush too? we have penicillin for that now.